chess

Chess 0.8
Chess is an impressive and pleasant widget where you challenge yourself versus your Mac, or a friend! With 1, and 2 player option features, and pawn choice! more>> Chess 0.8 is an impressive and pleasant widget where you challenge yourself versus your Mac, or a friend! With 1, and 2 player option features, and pawn choice!
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

iChess 1.0
A freeware chess program for Mac OS X Leopard for human vs computer game. more>>
A freeware chess program for Mac OS X Leopard for human vs computer game.
xChess 0.03
Free and open source graphical chess UI more>> Free and open source graphical chess UI
xChess is a open source graphical chess user interface for numerous chess engines. xChess is written in Java programming language, so it is compatible with many different platforms.
xChess intends to implement multiple chess protocols to serve as a front end for many existent chess engines. XBoard and UCI are two most popular protocols and most of the chess engines support at least one of the protocols to communicate with chess user interface.
xChess also aim to work as a client with popular Internet Chess Servers (ICS) where one can log in and play game using chess client with other people from all over the world.
Main features:>
- Simple and Lightweight interface
- Playing with chess engine
- Verification of user move
- Calculating move time
- Playing with another human
- Moving by mouse click
- Moving by dragging piece
- Listing performed moves
System requirements:
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j2chess 2.8
j2chess - Chess program written in Java more>>
j2chess includes an opening book of 15,000 games and can play games in three different modes; casual, blitz and blitz Fisher. j2chess can read ".pgn" library files and therefore can be used as a ".pgn" browser as well.
As a matter of fact, j2chess is a pure hobby project and its development progress is fairly slow! But who minds? ;-)
I just hope Ill give you the opportunity to have fun playing chess. You can also help me to improve j2chess by sending me your feedback via email. j2chess is a freeware but if you enjoy it you can always say "Thank you" by making a donation.
Main features:
- run potentialy on all platform (java 2)
- strength and other various settings can be changed
- casual, blitz and blitz Fisher style available for new games
- opening book with about 15,000 games
- load games in Portable Game Notation (PGN)
- internationalisation (EN and FR languages are supported, default is EN).
RChess 2.2.3
RChess is a great chess game with many levels, wickied grins, and corny puns more>> RChess is a great chess game with many levels, wickied grins, and corny puns.
System 7.0 or later.
MacChess 5.01
MacChess is a game including simple levels for beginners to play. more>>
MacChess 5.01 is a game including simple levels for beginners to play. It features an expanded opening book, an option to show you your best move, and a log to record your moves. In addition, MacChess can play against GNUChess, Crafty, or other chess applications when using the ExaChess Lite utility. MacChess is no cream puff of a game--it has some levels that are mighty hard to whip, and it has won awards in some hardcore computer chess tournaments. It now includes a move generator, a larger chess board and classic piece set, a results window, and new icons.

Chessic 2.1.4
Chessic is such an interesting game that allows you to play chess against other opponents over the internet. more>> Chessic 2.1.4 is such an interesting game that allows you to play chess against other opponents over the internet.
Major Features:
- Universal binary supporting both Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers
- Optimized 64-bit version for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with multi-processor support for Crafty
- Nice anti-aliased scalable/resizable configurable game board leveraging the Quartz display engine
- Support for professional chess fonts like Linares, Zurich and Hastings as well as two free sets
- Graphical "seek" window to find available game opponents
- Graphical annotation of examined games using Bob Hyatt's Crafty chess engine
- Game history list
- Integrated timestamp client support to eliminate the effects of internet latencies
- Flexible seek list for advertising which types of games you want to play
- Examine/observe games other than your own
- Sound alerts when 30,20,10 seconds remain of your alloted time
- Ability to save games in PGN (portable game notation) format
- Uses Mac OS X UI features like toolbars, drawers and sheets where appropriate.
Tocarema - Chessic is an interface to the Internet Chess Club (ICC) that allows you to play chess against other opponents over the internet. ChessiciPhone Chess 1.7
iPhone Chess - Chess, the game played in many countries around the world, for your iPhone more>> iPhone Chess - Chess, the game played in many countries around the world, for your iPhone
This is the chess game played in many countries around the world for your iPhone. The Chess game uses the famous GNU Chess engine.
This game works very much like the XBoard or WinBoard providing a graphical user interface that allows you to move pieces by tapping with your fingers.
iPhone Chess also features castling. piece promotion and en-passent capture.
The game is based on the powerful GNU chess engine and brings a full featured graphical interface. All you need to play chess is one finger to tap and move the pieces. The game can be automatically saved and restored between runs so you can access your agenda or run other apps without losing your game.
System requirements:
- iPhone and iPod Touch
BDI Chess 0.0.6
BDI Chess - Chess engine specially conceived as a study application of Belief-Desire-Intention AI Architectures more>> <<less

HOXChess 0.7.6
An C++ cross platform, open source Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) program. more>>
A cross-platform, open source Xiangqi (aka. Chinese Chess) client, capable of working with multiple online Xiangqi sites. This is a traditional desktop application, developed mainly in C++ using the wxWidgets Libraries. Two servers are supported so far: PlayXiangqi.com and Chesscape.com. There are a number of Artificial Intelligent (AI) engines included. The end users can customize the Boards and the Piece sets (including western Chess-like pieces). Multiple languages are supported: English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and French.
Gemini Mobile Technologies - Chinese Chess) client, capable of working with multiple online Xiangqi sites. HOXChess. A cross-platform, open source Xiangqi (aka. Chinese ChessBeChess3D 0.50
BeChess3D is a chess game with a 3D interface. You are given a rotating perspective of the game. The author has taken advantage of bilinear texture mapping to improve rendering quality more>> BeChess3D is a chess game with a 3D interface. You are given a rotating perspective of the game. The author has taken advantage of bilinear texture mapping to improve rendering quality. You can zoom in on the textures while you play. (Option click this download link to download the file correctly)
BeOS
Glyph Chess 1.0.1
Glyph Chess - A theme-able, network-able chess game more>>
It features a themable board, cross-platform network play and a move recorder.
Main features:
- Theme-able
- Cross-platform network play
- Move recorder.
License:Freeware
ExaChess 4.0.2
ExaChess is designed to be a handy,richly-featured chess-database program which can be used for the Macintosh. more>>
ExaChess 4.0.2 is designed to be a handy, richly-featured chess-database program which can be used for the Macintosh. It can manage a database of millions of master games, serve as a chessboard to play through games, and be used as a tool to record and annotate your own games, to play games against the computer, or to play perfect endgames.
Major Features:
- Direct support (without conversion) of PGN, ChessBase (CBF), and NICBase databases, as well as ExaChess's own database formats.
- Search across any number of databases or just a single database file by player name, event, year, result, ECO code, opening name, position, partial position, material, special game features, or any combination of these.
- Resizable, customizable 2-D color board with smooth animation.
- Flexible game parser that handles free-form text input, both algebraic and descriptive, including move and position evaluations, variations and text comments.
- Records full tree of moves. Switch to variation or return to main line.
- Shows opening tree (next moves for any opening position) with stats from the database. Quickly find matching games in database for any opening position.
- Supports play against external 'chess engines' or against the database via the UCI protocol or Apple Events, including Fruit 2.1 (supplied), ZZZZZZ (supplied), Hiarcs, Crafty, GnuChess, and MacChess. Supports automatic annotation of chess games via the chess engines.
Some Chess 2.0rc3
Some Chess - PHP powered chess program more>>
Its multiplayer only, with the possiblity of multiple games at once. Some Chess follows all the rules of chess, with point and click movement.
Best of all it is easy to install and its open source, so you can set it up in minutes and then modify and improve it if you like!
License:Freeware
Brutal Chess 0.3a
Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI more>>
Enhancements:
- A much improved AI
- Graphical improvements (Reflections, textures)
- Improved piece movement animations
- Numerous bug fixes to the chess engine
- Ability to drop a piece by right clicking.